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Period: Jan 1, 1337 to Jan 1, 1453
100 Years War
The 100 yars war was a war that went on for 116 years roughly. In that time it went on it was enough for 5 English king and 5 French kings to occur. They were fighing for control of France. -
National Assembly
The representatives of the Third Estate said they were a National Assembly. The Third Esate also said that they reperent the the French people.The king was not happy about that so he lock them out of the meeting hall. The Third Estate to say the leaast didn't listen. They marched out side of the metting hall and made a constitution. Later on the king told the nobles to join the National Assembly. -
Nepoleon became Emperor
Napoleon quickly went up in military rank during the French Revolution (1789-1799). After taking political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, a sudden violent or illegal seizure of government, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. -
Meeting of the Estates General
The Estates General is a group of people from the three estate come together because the king wants to make every one to pay the taxes. Its the frist meeting in 175 years that the Estates General has met. -
Tennis Court oath
They marched out side of the metting hall and made a constitution. Later on the king told the nobles to join the National Assembly. -
Storming of the Bastille
French citizense were trying to protect there country because they thought that king Louis XVL was trying to get rid of the National Assembly. So they inveded a paris prison named the Bastille. -
The Great Fear
There were rumors going though the village that the "nobles were hiring outlaws to torcher them." The peasents didn't like that so they went to with the things they had to go attack the nobles. -
Legislative Assembly
The nobles made a speach so they could show there love for liberty and equalty. They joined the National Assembly and they made it so that the noble and so the clergy were treated equal. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The National Assembly embraced the remark of Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens. It said that men were born with their own freedom/ free rights. -
and Women’s March on Versailles
A large group of women protested because the price of bread had gotten to epencive. Most of the women were Bourgeoisie like middle class people. The marched on the Versilles and the wanted the National Assmembly to do someting about it. Soon they became angery at the king and queen. They broke in to the castle and they wanted to kill the king and queen. -
A State Controlled Church
The National Assembly was trying to mainly look at the Churchs. Soon They took over the church land and they voted that the church people be the ones to pay the state. And in the end the church losted its land and political independance. -
Louis XVI Trys To Escape
The king was told that it was not safe for him to stay. He decides to leave with his family. They try to make it to Austrain Netherlands. Sadly they don't make it and king, the queen his wife Marie Antoinette, and there childeren are all killed by the Guillotine. The Guillotine was a stucter that has a blade you raise by a rope, then you put the person in it line their head up, and let go. -
Jacobins Take Control
Most of the people involed in the government were part of the Jacobins Club. On of the members of the Jacobins Clud was
Jean-Paul Marat. Jean-Paul Marat also edited the newspaper at the time as well. -
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National Convention
An assembly that governed French. They were elected to rewrite the constitution. Because they overthrow the monarchy. Soon the poorer classes got more political power. -
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Louis XVI Executed 1793-1795
Be for Louis XVI was executed he and the rest of the family were thrown in jail. And common people stopped wearing knee breeches. It meant that they were ordinary people. Also at the time Robespierre was focusing on the more government problem. While his friend George Denton tries to get men to join the frontier war. Robespierre guides the french revolution to try to remove the king. They put the king on trial they they find him guilty for portraying his country in the time of war. -
Committee of Public Safety/Reign of Terror
Robespierre became the leader of the committee of public safety. Maximilien made a rule. That rule was called Reign of Terror. Maximilien said that he used his rule to keep the French true. -
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The Directory
The directory with a group of people that ruled France. Many of the people in France didn’t approved of this. And there are many people that were their enemies. And soon the directory became corrupt. -
Reforms of Nepoleon
In the Concordat of 1801 Napoleon settled a lot of the differences between the state and the Catholic Church. He undid a lot of the revolutionary reforms and made peace with the Church. He also returned land that the National Assembly had taken.
Napoleon built a lot of new lycees, schools for boys age 10 to 16. He knew education was important so the boys would be able to fill jobs in his government and military. -
Invasion of Russia
At the end of that battle there were 7,000 french dead and 6,500 dead. After the battle indent Napoleon won. But he had to decide if you wanted to push on South and end up in another battle or turn back the way he came so the 5 major generals decided to go back the way they came. -
Invasion of Russia
Napoleon had a 450,00 men army to invade russia. He thought he could get a quick absolut be for summer ended. When soon after the invasion started reality hit. There was the heat of the summer lack of food and dishes spread like wildfire. In early september the russian leader bscorched earth policy. After that the ruler of Russia still did not surrender Russia to Napoleon. After that the wounded Soldiers went south in there they would find the Russian army waiting for them.